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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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December 31, 2009: Predictions 2010 Part 2

Dec 31, 2009
2h 32m
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Art Bell hosts the second and final night of predictions for 2010, broadcasting from Manila on New Year's Eve as fireworks erupt across the Philippines. He describes the scene as sounding like a war zone. Before opening the lines, Art continues reviewing the previous year's predictions, dinging forecasts of worsening deflation and a meteor strike while bonking predictions of armed rebellion, the Hoover Dam breaking, and the U.S. fragmenting into regional countries.

Callers bring an eclectic mix of visions for the new year. One listener predicts the discovery of extraterrestrial life in animal form. Another foresees a small tsunami off California revealing a new underwater species. A caller from Arizona claims Area 52 harbors Bigfoot being bred as military weapons. Other predictions include a major celebrity admitting to alien abduction, the return of time traveler Madman Markham, the sun taking center stage with dramatic weather changes, and a troubling decline in global fish populations.

Art also fields predictions about a 51st U.S. state, continued sabotage of the Large Hadron Collider by forces from the future, and indictments related to the global warming email controversy. Each prediction is numbered and sealed in the Bell family vault for review at year's end.